Xhem Hasa

Xhem Hasa (1908-6 May 1945) was a Balli Kombetar commander during World War II.

Biography
Xhem Hasa was born in 1908 in Simnica, Gostivar, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. Hasa and his brothers Musliu and Abdullah joined the Balli Kombetar resistance movement against Italy after the Italian invasion of Albania and the Greco-Italian War, but during World War II his resistance movement also fought against the Albanian Partisans, Chetniks, EDES, and Yugoslav Partisans, and in late 1943 he began collaborating with Nazi Germany against the partisans. On 6 May 1945, he was betrayed and killed by a close associate, his brother-in-law, at the age of 37.